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Yup.....take the Ferry or just walk under the Harbour Channel.

Union Pacific ordered 9 Stainless Steel RPO's from Budd in 1963 complete with the mail bag hook attachment on the door....... but I don't think they made it to Amtrak 8 years later in May '71. http://rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C56011%5C286a%20UP%205908.jpg Six of the cars went to VIA and...

It should have been without asking but it wasn't!

Reported across Toronto this morning and now out on the Kingston Subdivision. Should be in Montreal late this afternoon!

I'm guessing those photos are of the platform track in front of the Niagara Falls ON Station? There's only one GO Train a day using it (4 GO on weekends) and I don't think anything (freight) is crossing the Whirlpool Bridge right now into Niagara Falls, NY. The main track of CN's Grimsby...

Thanks to a heads up from a member over at the CanPassRail Forum......here's a link to a video posted by YouTuber Rojo Railfan showing UP 8488 underway with the first VIA Siemens 5-car set including the Cab Car along with two VIA Locos 2200 & 2201.

In my younger days when I 'graduated' from a coach seat to a lower berth then into a Roomette (old style) with an in-room toilet and sink.....I thought they were the greatest! Even those tiny Slumbercoach single and double rooms had a private toilet right in the room with you. So compact! Then...

Here's a couple views of a Cabin for 1 (or old style Roomette) Her purse is on the toilet.....so you can easily use it as a foot rest.

Here's a link to a ride through a snow storm on the Ocean https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/dashing-thru-the-snow.76865/

As I've posted before.....here's a link in the Trip Report forum to a 'Winter Ride on the Canadian' I took several years ago and IMHO....the best time to ride! https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/a-winter-ride-on-vias-canadian-with-photos.58023/

Thanks for posting. I've been across there a few times. That's the MV Trans St-Laurent....and nearly 60 years old! Built in 1963 but you'd never know as its up-to-date and very well maintained. And yes.....it's a big river and getting wide: 23km here. The last 'bridged' crossing of the St...

VIA has just updated this page on their Web Site to show that access to the Park Car and Skyline will now be accessible to passengers based on limited capacity. It also appears all meals are now served in the Dining car including Lunch....not just Breakfast and Dinner. It's the Covid menu but...

Thanks for posting the pictures.....I know the area well! Easy to follow the old CN right-of-way in those views. To bad it's been mostly obliterated with the construction of the divided Trans Canada Highway.

We're starting to feel the effects of the remnants of Ida in the Maritimes now. Heaviest rain will be along New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy coast and through the Moncton area. VIA's 'Ocean' went through Moncton last evening....but there is no eastbound train today.

And I'll keep this post updated with Ocean info as it becomes available. PS.....have you visited the CN Caribou....a.k.a the Newfie Bullet equipment display in Corner Brook? I did last year. A Covid 'Atlantic Bubble' Road Trip (& some Trains too!) | Amtrak Unlimited Discussion Forum...

What a resource! Thanks for that :)

It's usually 'Manor' Sleepers that are found on the Canadian as they offer more Cabins for 2 (Double Bedrooms) and the larger Cabins for 1 (Roomettes). They were refurbished to match the new interior scheme when 'Prestige Class' was launched. The Canadian does occasionally have a Chateau and...

I had a ride out onto that bridge once on the Lakeshore. This was back in the late '70s before Amtrak reconstructed the Post Road Branch that allows the Lakeshore to go directly from Rensselaer to the Berkshire Sub and onto Boston. Post Road Branch - Wikipedia Back then.....the Lakeshore...

Chateau Sleepers are Stainless Steel and originally built for Canadian Pacific's The Canadian in 1955. VIA completely rebuilt them in the late '80s early '90s. Renaissance Sleepers were built for British Rail in the mid 1990s to run through the Channel Tunnel. That train never ran and VIA...

I think the other one has survived too in Pennsylvania: Liberty Liner Independence Hall » Rockhill Trolley Museum